Rectifier arrangement



July 2, 1935. 5 HAGEN 2,006,806

RECTIFIER ARRANGEMENT Filed Aug. 15, 1930 INVENTOR GERHARD B. HAGEN ATTORNEY Patented July 2,1935 2 005,305 UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE 2,006,806 RECTIFIER ARRANGEMENT Gerhard B. Hagen, Berlin, Germany, assignor to Telefunken Gesellschaft fiir Drahtlose Telegraphic m. b. 11., Berlin, Germany, a corporation of Germany Application August 15, 1930, Serial No. 475,479 In Germany August 16, 1929 4 Claims. (Cl. 175-363) The present invention relates to rectifying systrol electrodes connection and said cathodes contems and the like, one of its main objects being nection, and a utilizing circuit connected between to provide a method of rectification by means said secondary midpoint and said cathodes conof a novel circuit arrangement whereby the nection. 5 form of rectified current produced is more sus- 2. In a rectifier circuit a space discharge de- 5 ceptible to being smoothed out. vice having an anode, a cathode and a control The above and other objects of the invengrid, a load connected between the anode and tion will be evident from reading the following cathode of said device, means for supplying a specification in conjunction with the drawing. potential to the anode of said device comprising In the drawing, Fig. 1 illustrates in diagrama source of alternating current connected be- 10 matic form of a pair of two element rectifiers tween the anode and cathode thereof, means for and a circuit arrangement therefor; Fig. 2 shows supplying said control electrode with a potential a series of curves used in explaining the present in quadrature relationship to the potential supinvention; and, Fig. 3 shows diagrammatically plied to the anode comprising, a condenser, an

a preferred embodiment of the invention in coninductive reactor and a resistor connected serial- 15 nection with three element tubes. 1y across the load circuit and arranged with re- For the purpose of rectifying alternating curspect to the tube so that the grid of said tube is rent it is usual to employ two valves connected connected to a point of said series elements bein phase-opposition as shown in Fig. 1, the potentween the condenser and inductor, said means tial to be rectified being supplied to the anodes of acting to distort the characteristic direct current 20 the tubes by way of a transformer T. By such pulsations supplied to the load circuit from the a scheme a pulsating direct current potential rectifier. is obtained between the middle T0 of the anode 3. In a rectifier circuit an electronic tube havor plate transformer and the cathode K of the ing an anode, a cathode and a control electrode,

tubes (curve A, Fig. 2). In order to insure reca source of alternating current and means for im- 5 tification under more favorable conditions, triode pressing the alternating current from said source tubes connected push-pull-fashion are employed between the anode and cathode of said tube, a according to this invention, the invention further load circuit connected between the anode and disclosing ways and means adapted to obtain a cathode of said tube in series with the means grid potential being in quadrature relationship for impressing said alternating current and 30 with the plate potential (curve B). means for supplying the grid electrode with a In this manner the plate potential curve as potential in quadrature relationship to the anshown in graph C, Fig. 2, is distorted. ode potential comprising, a direct current path In Fig. 3 the potential to be rectified is supplied including an inductive device connected between to the plates as heretofore in phase opposition. the control electrode and the cathode and a ca- 35 The middle of the secondary coil of T serves for pacitive path between the anode and the control deriving the positive potential and is associated electrode said capacitive path acting also to tune by way of the condenser C with the grids. The said path to substantially the frequency of the grid leak consists of the resistance R and inductenergy supplied to the anode potential.

ance coil L being tuned by C so as to establish 4. In a rectifier circuit a pair of electronic 40 potential resonance with the working wave. In tubes each thereof provided with anode, cathode this manner the potential fed to the grids is and a control electrode, a source of alternating shifted an angle of 90 degrees with reference to current, a transformer having a primary winding the plate potential variations. The negative poconnected across said source and a secondary tential is taken off from the cathodes at point K. winding included in a connection between the 45 I claim: anodes of said tubes, a connection between the 1. In a system for changing alternating curcathodes of said tubes and a connection between rent into pulsating direct current, a pair of electhe control electrodes of said tubes, a load circuit tronic rectifiers each thereof having a cathode, connected between a point intermediate the sec- 5 an anode and a control electrode, an input transa y Winding and a Point f S d a de Conformer having its primary connected to a source nection, a series circuit comprising a condenser I of alternating current, a circuit including the and an inductive reactor connected serially across secondary of the transformer for connecting the the load circuit and means for connecting said anodes of the two rectifiers, a connection between common grid connection to a point between the said two cathodes, a connection between said two condenser and the inductive reactance, said 55 two control electrodes, a condenser connected serially arranged elements acting to distort the between the midpoint of said secondary and said characteristic direct current pulsations of the control electrodes connection, an inductance and output of the rectifier.

a resistance in series connected between said con- GERHARD B. HAGEN. 

